Last week I was finishing up the Scrappy Majestic Mountains. The top is done and I've moved on to a variation on a pinwheel block. I had six leftover blocks from various times I've made these pinwheels. Visit here, a couple here, and scroll down here to see some Sharon made. I separated out the red, white and blue ones and have started to make additional ones to fill in. Using two contrasting fabrics you start with a 14" block that eventually gives you two 11.25" blocks. An odd size however I have never tried to mix this block in with other types of blocks. And, it goes pretty fast. Well, unless you don't put right sides together before you start sewing. FACE PALM! And, worse, I had already started the cutting process before I realized everything was wrong. I did a bit of ripping and am ready to sew these correctly.
I'm almost done with the baby girl Happy Blocks. (Remember you can find the pattern for it at MaryQuilts.) This one is a bright, cheerful quilt. And, I almost always make quilts for boys rather than girls. It was fun to use those bright pretty pinks from a charm pack. Eventually I'll do something from the blues and greens in that pack but not for a while.
Pat helped me lay this one out. Most of the colors are strong and it was distracting to have them spread out randomly. He suggested order. It worked well. I'll sew the rows together this week. I think I have a backing for this particular top so it might be quilted soon!
I've also started sewing the red, white and blue churn dash blocks together. They make great leader/enders while working on other things. I'll take the top row off and then lay out another row. I have these blocks pinned together in rows so it's easy to take the top row one off, move up the bottom one and keep laying out blocks.
I have a huge design wall. And, here's what it looks like at this moment. The far right side is a mess but I can get three different quilts up there although the Happy Blocks when seen together will come down to get all the pinwheel blocks up.
Last week I didn't set hard and fast goals. I have still been making masks. Our neighborhood mask sewers have been giving away masks to our neighbors who ask for them. We live in a 55+ neighborhood so most of us are being extremely careful. I need to make more masks so I can give at least 10 to Life Care.
My Top Three Goals 4/13 to 4/19:
1) Keep up with mask requests and give 10 a week to Life Care.
2) Finish Happy Quilt top and quilt it.
3) Make more pinwheel blocks so I can make a QOV approved size top.
4) Keep sewing churn dash rows together. (I know, I said three goals but honestly, this is just a leader ender!)
I'm ready to move down to the studio so before I go I'm linking to Oh Scrap, Monday Making, and Design Wall Monday. It should be fun to surf the web and see quilts and masks in progress.
Happy Quilting and Stay Safe. Bonnie
Your design wall looks lively with all of your works-in-progress.
ReplyDeleteGood idea to make ten masks a week.....I thought I was all done when an AAUW friend called. She and her husband are in their late 80's, housebound (he has underlying conditions). Their neighbor gets groceries for them; the neighbor and husband have a disabled adult daughter living with them....So I'm going out this afternoon to deliver 5 masks. (How can I not?) Hope you and Pat stay well.
Great projects in the works and on the wall. I really should have worked on masks in smaller chunks because my back is still achy from sitting at the machine so long last week.
ReplyDeletethat design wall IS huge...so nice to have that big space for all those pretty projects in progress...
ReplyDeleteYou've got a very colorful design wall at the moment. Congrats on all the UFO progress, along with making masks. You are going to have a very successful April.
ReplyDeleteLove all those projects!!! You are getting it done.
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